keeping a (maximally) clean active tree

[William Davis]

On Dec 7, 2007, at 1:09 PM, paul beard wrote:

> On 12/5/07, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>>
>> I agree here again. You should not have to force anything in normal
>> use. But you currently do, to uninstall old versions of software on
>> which other software depends. Discussion of how this situation could
>> be improved would probably be welcomed on the macports-dev list.
>>
>
> is there a reason not to make what we now use as "-f" the default
> behavior? If I use "port upgrade foo" I expect foo to be upgraded to
> the latest version. the use of "upgrade" implies that I have an
> existing version that may be out of date and if it is, I want it
> upgraded.
>
> I realize, in circumstances like the gettext issue mentioned above,
> that can hose things up, but that could be something is flagged in a
> Portfile that might display a message like:
>
> ####
> Installed port foo 0.6-7,1 is superceded by foo 0.7. foo 0.7 is
> incompatible with installed ports
> bar 1.1
> baz 0.9-1
> quux 0.2-3,1_3
>
> To upgrade foo correctly, please uninstall the ports that depend on
> it, upgrade foo and reinstall the dependents.
>
> ####
>
> here's a particularly hairy example from FreeBSD's UPDATING file:
>
> 20050201:
>  AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5 and lang/perl5.8
>  AUTHOR: tobez at FreeBSD.org
>
>  lang/perl5 has been updated to 5.6.2, and lang/perl5.8 has been
>  updated to 5.8.6. you should update everything depending on perl,  
> that
>  is:
>
>    * first, upgrade your perl installation (use either lang/perl5 or
>      lang/perl5.8, the latter being recommended);
>    * for FreeBSD 4.X, run "use.perl port", so that the system knows  
> you
>      have 5.8.6 or 5.6.2; this step is not needed on FreeBSD 5.X and
>      FreeBSD -CURRENT;
>    * run some magic incantations to upgrade all ports depending on  
> perl,
>      that is run something like :
>      portupgrade -f `(pkg_info -R perl-5\* |tail +4; \
>        find /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.[68].[1245] -type f - 
> print0 \
>        | xargs -0 pkg_which -fv | sed -e '/: ?/d' -e 's/.*: //')| 
> sort -u`
>      This is likely to fail for a few ports, you'll have to upgrade  
> them
>      afterwards by hand.
>
> Personally, I would have this be dumped out to the console when an
> upgrade matches the date and version that this applies to. But that's
> cuz I am too lazy/absent-minded to read UPDATING as often as I should.
>
>
> -- 
> Paul Beard / www.paulbeard.org/
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pardon, but doesnt using -R  (-dfunR) take care of this?

William Davis
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